Siege of the Alamo: The Final Battle - History of the Texas Revolution
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- If you've watched the previous five installments of this series, thanks and congrats on making it to the end! If not, there's a playlist of the series on this channel. We've covered the ground from the arrival of Santa Anna in San Antonio de Bexar through his decision to stage a final assault. This is an encapsulation of how the Battle of the Alamo played out.
All credit to James Boddie for granting me permission to use his fantastic 3D renderings of the Alamo compound to show you what it looked like in 1836. Thanks to celebrated military artist, Gary Zaboly, for the use of some of his remarkable illustrations. You both gave this series texture, faces, and a life it would have lacked without your work.
The primary reference book for the details of the siege was that of COL. Alan Huffines. It may be purchased here: www.amazon.com/Blood-Noble-Me...
For a delightfully readable military history of the Texas Revolution, we recommend Dr. Hardin's Texian Iliad: www.amazon.com/Texian-Iliad-M...
I was born and raised in San Antonio and every time I pass through the Alamo it's still intriguing and I used to walk through there whenever I had a chance, what I mean is the grounds. I know their sacrifice was not in vain this great state was born. But sadly what's happening these days is a shame it could mean it is finally in vain. God bless America and the Republic of Texas.
No nacio se lo robaron a mexico
I was a re-enactor in THE PRICE OF FREEDOM. It was a great experience and was very humbling. The filming at night during the assault on the Palisades was chaotic with screams, gunfire, and confusion. I have great respect the defenders of the Alamo and the Texican settlers for their eventual victories.
I've read about the filming and can see how that would be immersive and maybe terrifying. The San Antonio paper and one of the journalist authors of Forget the Alamo were writing last year that the film shouldn't be shown anymore for all the reasons you'd guess.
@@texashistorytrust that’s insane. It’ll only take one more generation to completely lose the history of this country and freedom we’ve won and kept so far. I wasn’t able to see the finished film for years until I visited San Antonio again. I loved the film and the message. I also saw myself for a brief time fighting in the forefront of the palisade in my brown felt hat with the brim upturned on the side😊
@@texashistorytrust Yeah, those tri-authors definitely had their agendas in that book.
@@Rick-jf6sg Those so called writers are nothing but Democrat-anti-americans that keep on pushing their their communist-anti-slavery agenda.
David and I lived in the corral under an arbor for nearly 5 weeks while making that movie. I have so many memories of it as I see the hats and other items I used in it spread around in one of my rooms.
How Many Tears Have Fallen
Tears so many have fallen
Through the years for the Greatest Nation ever
Tears for life liberty the pursuit of happiness
For a free world
Tears for the sons and daughters that never returned home
Warrior soldiers all
Tears wiped from the cheeks of so many wives
Shed by the children with only faint memories
Tears behind the mother's veil
On father's handkerchief
Tears at the base of the white stone
That wet the flowers and flags
Tears at the sound of taps played in the distance
For the memories of buddies
Tears at the sight and sound of dog tags boots
Empty
Tears when the aircraft flyover
Stars shining brightly
Tears as the ships sail
Anchors aweigh
Tears for those that patrol
Guard the dark nights alone
Tears at roll call
With no reply to a name called
How many tears have fallen
Bless Them All
Barry 5/30/2021
My wife’s uncle great great and children’s great Uncle Dolphin Floyd died at the Alamo. He was a poor dirt farmer but rose to the occasion.
Perfect
I am moved, as I believe All true Texican's are, by the final written words of your wonderful series of presentations...
🙏God and Texas,
Y'all🙏
Thank you so much, Rodney. I’m glad you caught that! It’s been my email sign-off for decades. Where it comes from is in the first video of this series: th-cam.com/video/X-DrSLt5Zr4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=WjGqQQjv5jpSOaNR
@@texashistorytrust ... see... People DO pay attention!!! Even if they are so broke they can't afford it!😂😂😂
Mrs Dickinson said she saw Crockets body laying on the ground on the right side of the front of the Church along with several bodies of Mexican soldiers. She was one of the last survivors and her testimony did not support the rumor that Crockett was executed.
This whole no-quarter / quarter thing is a huge topic we should all know more about. Like our coin the quarter with Washington on it and what it means.
With one of the pyres located nearby, perhaps this explains the haunted nature of the Menger Hotel. Haunted or not, it's still my favorite!
I like how this video referred to Crockett as “David,” not “Davy.” Other works I’d read suggested that Jim Bowie was the only Alamo defender who would have likely been know to Santa Ana and the aristocracy as he’d married well into a prominent San Antonio family. Crockett, while some might have heard of him, was not a folk hero in Mexico and no one would have likely recognized him. In the predawn hours, I doubt he was even recognizable. I think he likely died near the Palisades where he and his men were stationed. Anyway, another interesting take on the actual battle.
Love the narration, very well done.
Thank you much, WF. I figured my voice is the last thing anyone would expect when they click an Alamo battle video. That's exactly why I narrated the whole series. I appreciate you watching.
Long live TEXAS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Extremely well done. Thank you for your work.
Very well done, excellent job...
This series was finely made and presented. Thank you.
Much appreciated, HammerMan. It was a wonderful learning experience. I know the history but creating non-talking head videos is worlds apart from editing me running my yap.
@@texashistorytrust Your presentation was 5-star. Far from "running your yap", as some tend to do, you were concise and clearly showed the in-depth research done to put the series together. Not using computerized narration(sic) elevates the series, shows you care and is most appreciated by all- especially myself. Thank you once again for the marvelous work you've done.
GOD BLESS TEXAS and AMERICA.
Wonderful, informative, objective video. Thank you.
Thank you!
Got my blood pressure up.
What hardnosed men!
They met the challenge of the times they lived in. 19th century life (and war) were harsh. This was a hard story to tell.
Wonderful job. Keep going.
Thank you, Michael! I’ve been quite ill and used my recovery time to add some much needed skills to my video editing bag of tricks.
@@texashistorytrust I’m very impressed with the skills. Hope you are better.
My health bar is at about 70% but that beats the hell out of where I was in February. Think you'll ever make the jump to talking head video?
@@texashistorytrust I don’t know if the world needs my head talking but I have been planning on making more visually engaging videos using text, maps, photos and artwork. Probably won’t be to the level of yours but better than a static image like mine have been.
Remember the Alamo!!!
Just the best. Marty Robbins is looking down handing you his crown.
Before you give me Marty’s crown, I know I have some ‘splaining to do re: Brigido. I felt that my mention of him felt out of place. It was too brief. So I cut it. And this series might leave a “where’d they end up?” taste in people’s mouths. The survivors had interesting, sometimes troubled, lives after the Alamo. Soooo I’m going to do a separate video on the survivors that will let me allot more time to Susanna, Enrique, Joe, Brigido, Gertrudis, Juana, etc. Dig it?
@@texashistorytrust I hardly noticed anything or anyone missing except for that company of roofers who were at the vanguard and Crocket noted their arrival. I watched it on a loop. Good stuff. Hard to notice anything missing with so much new context in here. We will pick up Brigido later. It’s not like he’s gonna complain. Hahah
@@texashistorytrust you don’t have to be modest. This video is just as good or better than Marty Robbins’. Y’all truly excelled. Outdid yourselves.
I do have to be modest because I’m learning this as I go. I’m always mindful of being an amateur. The history I know well but I do all of the graphics, editing, sound, etc. myself. One day my nonprofit will have a zillion dollars and I’ll pay an editor. Until then, I’ll keep volunteering to do it. When that time comes, I will put in an animation of the roofers rolling up to the Alamo and probably get canceled again 😂
@@texashistorytrust maybe I’m partial, but I’m known to be quite objective. You’re a powerful historian.
there used to be a Dillards store a few hundred feet from the Alamo. Years ago an Alamo tour guide told me that’s where the funeral pyres were
Other side of it on Commerce Street, which as the Alameda in 1836.
One story I heard was that Travis didn’t draw a line in the sand, but went around and spoke to everyone he could, telling them what they were up against and if they thought they could make it and tried to escape, it wouldn’t change anything they had done inside the walls. Maybe true, maybe not.
Another plausible theory, sir. It seems most likely that, one way or another, the defenders were apprised of the no-more-reinforcements situation and each had a personal choice to make.
Pretty fair account.
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The Alamo and San Antonio River Walk also landed on USA Today's top 100 "Most Overrated Attractions Worldwide," a category also included in last week's report, coming in at No. 81 and No. 98, respectively.
I saw the Alamo one but not the River Walk. I wholeheartedly agree on the latter. Ironically, the Alamo was voted Best Free Attraction in the USA Today poll last year. Go figure!
I worked from January to November in San Antonio. I vi sited the Alamo several times. One of my great(x4) grandfathers was there. I have studied 20+ books and articles on it. I suggest EVERYONE read a couple of articles at least.
Woohoo! Its here!
This was a tortuous edit and I'm not sure how I feel about it but I'm finally freeeeeeeeee!
@@texashistorytrust lol. the whole thing was great. I loved it. and this is the guy that doesn't care much about Alamo lore and history
@@rosgill6 Thank you 😊 It’s a good story at its core when it’s not wrapped in dogmatic lore. From the bottom of my heart, I hate that that rhymed!
@@rosgill6 I have been invited to meet with the Express News editorial board, presumably to discuss the nasty editorial they ran about me based on the Texas Monthly story. Next week. Imma roll up on San Antonio with bananas and popsicles like the gangsta we both know I am!
that EN reply is lost in purgatory or something. I can see it in one place but can't open the whole thing. anyway, I'm sure they can skype with you. Don't walk into the disinformative lion's den. you WILL be sacrificed to the Big History deities. ( i have a few metaphors engaged right now and I don't care to reconcile that haha). every time i glance at that newspaper at the corner store i roll my eyes. it's really that bad. also, involuntary rhyming happens to every one. you just can't let it become habit. then you are part of the problem :)
It was Travis that fired the cannon in defiance to the parley, and it enraged Bowie who was sick and would have tried to bargain for a retreat. It probably wouldn't have made a difference to Santa Anna, as he was known to be quite ruthless.
I covered the messenger sent by Travis and the one sent by Bowie in the first installment of the siege series here:
th-cam.com/video/X-DrSLt5Zr4/w-d-xo.html
Gone are Davy Crockets rifle, Jim Bowie's knife... both worth millions to a collector.
Only one of Crockett's rifles is in a private collection (that of a Crockett descendant in Houston). One is on display at the Alamo. Neither was the rifle he had in the Alamo, which was lost to history. That may be true of Bowie's Alamo knife, as well. The authenticity of the Musso Bowie knife was/is questionable.
@@texashistorytrust Thanks. I saw a video years ago on New York TV, a documentary by this man concerning that Bowie knife, wrote to him In Care Of the station he broadcasted from... he sent me what I asked for which was an exact to scale blueprint of the knife. I made one from that blueprint out of a hard, hard steel truck leaf spring. It took five years of my spare time and it's still not quite finished. Thanks again.
@@oldmanjoe6808 Holy smokes! Points for dedication and attention to detail, sir. I have a Black-style coffin Bowie that someone else went to the pains to make for me. Definitely not as tough as leaf spring steel!
Hello
Have a question was Texas part of the US
Or
At this time (March 6, 1836) Texas was a Mexican state in rebellion. It had declared independence from Mexico a few days before but the men at the Alamo didn’t know that. Several Mexican states rebelled against Santa Anna turning his back on federalism. Other rebellions were crushed (Zacatecas) or ended pretty peacefully (Yucatán). Texas would become a part of the U.S. a decade after the fight in this video.
❤why was Santa Ana allowed to live on Long Island later?
Why do you think?
The truth is so much more compelling and heroic than even the myths of Alamo we grew up hearing. Thank you for the best rendition of the Alamo yet. Texas History Trust is better than School House Rock!
Texas holding the line every since
As a kid growing up in the 50's and 60's I have always been interested in the battle at the Alamo. I was fortunate to visit there many years ago and hope to return one day. That said I've never been a fan of Jim Bowie. Not a good guy. At all, in any way. I suppose he was a man of his times, but being a thief and a swindler were his good qualities. Crockett was there for land and opportunity. I don't believe he gave a twit about Texan independence except for what he might profit from it. Doesn't make him any less brave or whatever. But when he arrived in Bexar he should have kept going.
why were the bodies burned?
The soldados weren't burned. They were buried in the Campo Santo (most of them, anyway.) The Texians were burned, as I said in the video, because Santa Anna was staying in San Antonio for a little while. Decomposing bodies all around would be unhealthy. Why burned instead of buried? Presumably because Santa Anna wanted to send a message to the Texians in the settlements.
Some may not like this but I don't think the defenders of the Alamo were brave and heroic. I think they were foolish. Trying to defend such a large area with so few men against much greater numbers is dumb. The fact that the battle was over so quickly is proof of that. The Alamo would have been hard to defend with 2 or 3 times more men. Having only 150 men was a no win situation. They should have left and joined up with Sam Houston. Adding to his numbers before engaging Santa Ana. Houston ended up defeating him so the Alamo would again be in their hands. Instead they stayed and died needlessly. It's always better to retreat to fight another day. When the odds of winning the battle are more in your favor. I am sure Travis, Bowie and Crockett would have been a great help to Houston. Just seems to be a waste of a bunch of good men. So sad.
Surrender at (Santa Anna’s) discretion was the option; just walking away was not. Do you think Santa Anna would have allowed them to walk unscathed? There were Tejanos there who lived through the Battle of Medina and people who knew what went down in Zacatecas. (Serious question. No sneak intended.)
The Texians didn't have enough horses, Oxen, or supplies to get everyone and the cannon out of Bexar safely.
If they fled on foot, Santa Anna's cavalry would have caught up to them and torn them to shreds. The only hope they had was to hold up in the Alamo until they could be reinforced. Thanks to the defenders, Houston had enough time to muster and train an army that could go up against Santa Anna.
If anyone was dumb it was Santa Anna who wasted time besieging a very small force for two weeks that wasn't even much of a threat. If he kept only a portion of his army to besiege the Alamo, and kept advancing he probably would have won the war.
so are you in EN jail? are you allowed correspondence? are they feeding you solids?
in other words, how did the "meeting" go?
1) Heard the phrase “Big Archaeology” on a Rogan episode and almost spat my smoothie out. 😂😂 Sooooon Big History will be on blast. I can feel it!
2) The struggle session was bumped up. My doc advised no travel until after I have a follow up CT scan. Hopefully that will be scheduled on Monday.
3) I wrote a piece about DEI at the Bullock Museum last week. Everything is ClownWorld.
@@texashistorytrust I would say that is good except that it isn't. I hope you start getting better soon. Is the piece you wrote online so I can read it? before big history takes it down😬
Hopefully I’ll have some new docs on board and we’ll blaze a trail to me feeling human again. And aye, most of what I write gets posted to the website. Bullock thingy is here: www.texashistorytrust.org/texas-history-news-and-opinion/texas-museums-amp-dei
@@texashistorytrust I shall have a read. thank you :)
@@rosgill6 If you’ve read it, now you know why the Smithsonian, among other august national institutions, has gone loco. Space Center Houston. DEI in space!
Santa Anna listed 3 items for settlement in Texas: 1- Learn Spanish 2- Become Catholic 3- NO SLAVES ALLOWED
Britian ended their slavery in 1808 - Mexico ended theirs in 1827. Texas was being plan as slave territory. Travis & Bowie had slaves as most Scot-Irish who came from
the South with their slaves to settle in Texas. German-Americans who settled in Central Texas were anti-slavery and were met with violence later during the Civil War for
their Pro-Union stance. The Alamo wasn't fought for FREEDOM, but sadly for SLAVERY.
1) Santa Anna didn’t make the empresario contracts.
2) Coahuila y Texas outlawed the importation of slaves in 1827, not Mexico. Mexico left it up to the states in 1824. Tejanos in favor of colonization lobbied for an exemption for Texas and received it. Meanwhile, slavery exemptions were given to the unsettled Isthmus of Tehuantepec any time Mexico made a new slavery law. They wanted the Itsmo settled and cultivated quickly, and were happy to invite American slave owners as settlers to get that done. Interestingly, only male slaves would be permitted, as it was assumed female slaves would mix with the native race.
3) Britain ended the slave trade, not slavery, in the Empire in 1807. Slaves were still legally held in British colonies until the 1830s.
4) While the Germans later adopted a staunch anti-slavery stance in Texas, there were German slaveholders and plantations here.
5) There were almost 200 men in the Alamo. You named two. Name me a few from Pennsylvania, New York, Ireland, Scotland, and Massachusetts. Go look up the list.
You’re certainly entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.
All bull
I'll bite. Which part of the battle did I get wrong?
*OR....Crockett's life was spared! Afterall, he was a Free Mason as was Santa Anna and most of the Mexican officers. One would ONLY have to signal the sign of distress to a fellow "brother" in order to ask for mercy, as in Sam Houston's capture of Santa Anna later.* What a turn of events THAT would've been!*
That's an old wives tale. Crockett died with the rest of the defenders. There is a marker on the ground in front of the church where Mrs Dickinson saw his body.
@@johnadams5489 I didn't say it was FACT. But it would've been a happier ending. I don't think Crockette realized what he was getting into. I think he came down here to hunt and maybe find new land. But S Anna was a Free Masion & so was Crockette and Sam Houston + others. Further, the bodies were so mutilated and probably still dark(?) I don't think she could've recognized him. the battle started at what? 5-6 am. and was over in about 1 hr???
If you "don't exactly know what happened" and you quote historians who "guess" what happened why create a false narrative of the events that occurred?
I guess you missed the part where I said historians guess where the columns formed based on how they moved. Please show me the “false narrative” or any narrative in my description of the mechanics of the battle.
@@texashistorytrust You will have to excuse him, in these tough economic times, he is so poor he cannot afford to PAY attention.
@@redsammy7789 He’s like school on Saturday…no class.
Too bad they didnt know Greek Fire, how to make it...
I think the pine resin would’ve been hard to come by or if Mesquite sap would have similar properties, but man…this makes for some interesting alternative history thoughts.
Texas smexas